Tag: Police shootings
Spotty data and media bias delay justice for missing and murdered...
Wendelin Hume, University of North Dakota
No one knows just how many Indigenous girls or women go missing each...
Police killings of civilians in the US have been undercounted by...
Moshen Naghavi, University of Washington; Eve Wool, University of Washington, and Fablina Sharara, University of Washington
The Research Brief...
Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and...
Denise A. Herd, University of California, Berkeley
It’s been one year since George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police...
Let’s call athletes ‘workers,’ and let’s call these NBA protests what...
Abraham I. Khan, Pennsylvania State University
The Milwaukee Bucks’ startling refusal to take to the court for their NBA playoff game on Aug. 26 was...
Federal agents sent to Kenosha, but history shows militarized policing in...
Angélica Durán-Martínez, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The U.S. Justice Department has dispatched federal agents and U.S. marshals to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a police shooting left...
To stop police shootings of people with mental health disabilities, I...
Jennifer Sarrett, Emory University
After Shukri Ali Said left her house during a mental health crisis on April 23, 2018, her sister called 911 for...
George Romero’s zombies will make Americans reflect on racial violence long...
Erin C. Cassese, West Virginia University
“What’s your zombie apocalypse survival plan?”
The question invites the liveliest discussions of the semester. I teach a course...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
